[plug] acrobat reader and printing

[Bret Busby]

Christian wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 11:55:33AM +0800, Leon Blackwell wrote:
> 
> > I'm not sure about Murdoch or other Perth universities, but here
> > at Curtin we are not allowed to release course material publicaly.
> > (no, I don't understand it either... it's not like anyone would
> > want to steal it and use it for themselves  :)
> > I'm going to assume that that would be the reason for password
> > protecting the PDF -- one more level of security.  We already
> > password protect our unit webpages
> > ( http://www.computing.edu.au/units/ ) to the outside world.  I
> > expect it won't be long before we're told to password protect our
> > PDFs and other files too.
> 
> I don't think there is any such restriction at Murdoch, certainly all
> materials are publicly available.  Either way, I believe that password
> protecting a PDF protects you from *modifying* it, not from actually
> viewing it.


Slight correction, Christian - it depends on the academic, as to whether
the materials are publicly available. Examples include B108, which used
to require logging in, B211 lecture notes, which require logging in to
read the notes, and, others exist, and have existed, particulary within
the teaching IT department (as opposed to the IT department that
manitains the network, etc).

My understanding, was that the reason for restricting access to unit
materials, was to prevent people who were not enrolled in particular
units, from accessing the materials.

But, I could be wrong.

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Bret Busby

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